The Strengthening Access to Justice for Improved Human Rights Protection project has as its objective the improving of access to justice for individuals wishing to strengthen their human rights protection in those instances when they feel that they have been violated. Whilst Malta has a relatively strong human rights regime that seeks to protect a long list of fundamental human rights, the practical protection offered to persons whose rights have been violated or might be violated is rather weak.
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Time for action! Joint NGO letter urging free PrEP distribution
We joined our colleagues in the LGBTIQ+ sector to issue the below letter. We are urging Malta to live up to its promise: free PrEP distribution!
The letter tells Malta that the time for words has long passed. It is now time for action!
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Event: Law Student Seminar SLAPPs – The Chilling Effects of Abusive Lawsuits on Journalists & Activists
Attention all Law & Media Students: Do you want to know what a SLAPP is? What is the draft Directive everyone is talking about? How will it effect Maltese law and lawyers? Join us on the 17th November 2023 at the University of Malta.
We’ve sent a joint letter to Members of the European Parliament: where is solidarity in the new Pact on Asylum and Migration?
Together with friends all over the EU, we’ve sent a joint letter to Members of the European Parliament. Our letter flags our worries in relation to on-going discussions on the new Pact on Asylum and Migration. In particular, we question the positioning of solidarity, as a key value all Member States should be working on.
An indictment of Malta’s defective asylum system that hinders human-rights protection: Case of A.D. v. Malta [App no. 12427/22]
Border Criminologies, managed by the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, published a guest post by Carla Camilleri, lawyer and the Assistant Director of aditus foundation.
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